Mandarin Oriental | T+L 500 2008 | Travel + Leisure

Mandarin Oriental

Asian-inflected hotel in the Time Warner Center, with commanding Central Park views .

Score 84.77
Stats 248 rooms; 1 restaurant; 2 bars.
Competitive Edge The city's best hotel spa, with treatments designed by the venerable Espa.
Rooms to Book Premier Central Park View Rooms, on floors 43 and above, for unimpeded park vistas.
Don't Miss A plunge in the 75-foot lap pool, overlooking the Manhattan skyline.
Cost Doubles from $895.
Contact 80 Columbus Circle at 60th St., Time Warner Center
Midtown
(866) 801-8880 or (212) 805-8800

www.mandarinoriental.com

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“Joey thinks one advantage of hotel living is 'you never know who you're going to see. We've seen Cameron Diaz and Justin Timberlake in the elevator, and bumped shoulders with Brad Pitt. They are constantly redecorating and fixing up, like they had to the time Paris Hilton put her candy wrapper in a plant....” MORE»

—Lisa Birnbach
“Real-Life Eloises” in Travel + Leisure, Jun 2006

“For a mere $7,500 a night, the Mandarin Oriental offers a dizzying vantage from its two-bedroom, 2.5-bath Taipan Suite, hovering 54 stories above Central Park....” MORE»


“T+L Reports: Suite New York” in Travel + Leisure, Dec 2005

“The Mandarin Oriental, New Yorkis giving guests a reason to hit the books with its Bedside Reading program. Rooms are stocked with fiction and nonfiction titles (yours to keep) and a pair of Morgenthal Frederics glasses ($150). Luggage Express is even throwing in a $50 shipping credit to help get those novels home....” MORE»


“T+L Reports: Word Up” in Travel + Leisure, Aug 2005

“It's not often you can lay the transformation of a Manhattan neighborhood at the foot of one building. But with a media company and a luxury hotel as tenants, the Time Warner Center is turning one of New York's most contested pieces of real estate into a destination....” MORE»

—Karrie Jacobs
“Full Circle” in Travel + Leisure, Jan 2004